Chapter 18
Making Mad Mad Money
In This Chapter
Checking out the advertising options
Blogging for money
Putting products on your blog with affiliate programs and gifts
Looking for a blog sponsor
Advertising on your blog has never been easier. Many different advertising systems offer bloggers a free way to place ads on their blogs, and businesses have picked up on the fact that blog advertising can really work. Putting an ad or two on your blog can help you easily earn a little money doing something you enjoy. Many bloggers turn a pretty penny, and some even earn a living, from advertising.
Ever since websites came into existence, you could find online advertisements. From the first web banners of the early Internet to today’s contextual advertising systems, ads have run the gamut from wildly successful to a waste of precious bandwidth.
In some cases, the effectiveness of ads has more to do with the readers than anything else. On the blog for some topics, blog readers willingly look at ads and even click them, but audiences on other blogs just don’t have the patience to wade through ...
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